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Poor Job, 1752. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1752 : ... Fitted to the meridian of Rhode-Island; but will serve (without any sensible error) in all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By Job Shepherd, philom. [Four lines of verse].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, James, 1732?-1762, author.
- Shepherd, Job, author.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Almanacs, English.
- Almanacs, English--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Almanacs.
- Almanacs -- Rhode Island -- 1752.
- Physical Description:
- 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 8⁰
- Place of Publication:
- Newport [R.I.] : Printed and sold by James Franklin, at the printing-office under the town-school-house, [1751]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- The prefaces to this series show that the pseudonym is that of the calculator, who is identified as the printer James Franklin by H.M. Chapin (American collector 2 (1926): 325-329; "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. v. 25 (1915): 22). But Franklin is not known to have been educated in mathematics and astronomy.
- Advertised in the Boston evening post, Nov. 25, 1751.
- The Anatomy is the only illustration.
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
- Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 6780
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 12801
- Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 103
- English Short Title Catalog, W22768.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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